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Bag fee a boon for city coffers, big stores

I find it absolutely astounding the City Council actually passed the 10-cent plastic-bag fee. Naive? Inept? Ill-informed? Thank you, Councilor Keith Brant for your use of good common sense. ...

Children’s deaths were the point of crosses

As part of the cross project to bring awareness to the 19,000 daily children’s deaths, our team placed thousands of small crosses on Chapman Hill. While placing these fragile wooden crosses ...

Regulate recreational vehicles, their names

I’m calling on city, county and even state officials to come up with some strict laws regulating the names displayed on recreational vehicles. How many of my fellow residents have been terro...

Maybe others could pass out plastic bags

If the intent is to stop people using disposable bags, a 10-cent penalty is not enough. This penalty will proportionately hurt the people in the lowest income brackets the most. One should o...

Join the effort to shop outside of Durango

City Councilor Dean Brookie needs to know the plastic-bag tax affects county residents as much as those who reside in the city. Justice, if it is defined as democracy, would demand that all ...

Obama’s lying is worthy of impeachment

President Obama should be impeached. He is lying once again. What? He stated we have added 162,000 new jobs in the month of July. How did he do this? Obama’s health car...

Our community deserves safe access to pot

Last year, 55.3 percent of Coloradans went to the polls and decided that marijuana should be regulated like alcohol. Local governments now have a choice before them: allow retail ...

Animas pollution also a problem for Durango

I salute The Durango Herald for its series about toxic metals that get into the Animas River from Silverton mines (Aug. 4, 5 and 6). The issue is increasing toxic metals flowing into the Ani...

City should heed Oxbow recommendations

The Oxbow Park and Preserve management plan is still being formalized with final approval by various committees. Site development plans are targeted for 2014 for the 29th Street, 33rd Street...

No ‘education’, just a predetermined vote

The Aug. 7 edition of the Herald contained still another article about the bag tax. In response to questions from a county resident, City Manager Ron LeBlanc once again showed his disrespect...

Regulate existing put-ins, leave Oxbow alone

I don’t see being opposed to developing the Oxbow riparian area for a commercial river put-in as a NIMBY (not in my backyard) issue. Yet in a very real sense, people who have made the choice...

Council did right thing in backing bag fee

I want to congratulate the City Council on having the courage to approve the controversial bag ordinance. I see very valid points – and respect the passion – on both sides of the issue. In t...
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